Images Dated 2007 August

Swindon Works, 1908

View of Swindon Works looking towards the turntable and Erecting Shop

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Swindon, Turn Table

Bristol Temple Meads Station, c.1936

A view of Diesel Railcar No. 11, built by AEC, waiting at a platform at Bristol Temple Meads in c.1936. These new streamlined railcars were very much of their time and would have been revolutionary when they entered service in the 1930s and began replacing traditional steam locomotives

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1930s, 1936, Aec, Bristol, Bristol Temple Meads, Diesel, No 11, Rail Car, Railcar, Station

Mechanics Institute, c1880s

This view shows the orignal Mechanics Institute building. Built in a gothic style the Institute would have been an imposing building in the Railway Village. The octagonal covered market, which was demolished in 1891, can be seen to the rear.
The Mechanics Institute provided a library, theatre and games rooms for GWR employees and their families. It was built in 1854 and stood in the heart of the Village

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